What to Do with All Those Empty Car Dealerships?

More than 2,000 car dealerships across the country will be closing their doors in coming months. Planetizen
- my favorite urbanist site - recently asked its readers what should be
done with all that space. Here are the top five vote-getters (as of May
21):

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Richard Florida is a co-founder and editor at large of CityLab and a senior editor at The Atlantic. He is a university professor in the University of Toronto’s School of Cities and Rotman School of Management, and a distinguished fellow at New York University’s Schack Institute of Real Estate.